20,000 BA Miles for £35!! (Amex Gold relaunch)
Apr 21, 2010, 1:12 am
#106
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Dorchester, Dorset UK
Programs: BA Gold, BMI, ANA, HH Blue, SPG Gold
Posts: 2,063
I use my PayPal account (AMEX card default) to credit my PP top-up card for £1k a month. I then use the card to pay my PAYE or Corporation Tax. I have never paid any charges for this.
Apr 21, 2010, 2:05 am
#107
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: London
Programs: BA, VS, HH, IHG, MB, MR
Posts: 26,871
There are probably a couple of hundred FT'er happily loading Paypal cards from their Amex cards ... It SHOULD be a cash advance but Amex's IT is not clever enough to differentiate between different types of Paypal payment. Mastercard / Visa have higher quality IT monkeys.
Apr 21, 2010, 2:05 am
#108
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Manchester, England
Programs: Bonvoy LT Plat, HH Diamond, IHG Plat, BMI Gold (RIP)
Posts: 8,021
As Raffles says, I have a lot of trust in Quidco sorting things out if it doesn't get tracked for any reason. However I expect it will be tracked, but it may take weeks to hit Quidco rather than days due to the nature of the product.
Apr 21, 2010, 2:23 am
#109
Join Date: Sep 2009
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 69
No Quidco tracking here either, but when clicking on "Compose Earnings Enquiry" and looking under Amex, the correct time and date for my application shows up, so my settings were ok (cookies cleared etc).
Apr 21, 2010, 2:43 am
#110
Join Date: Jan 2006
Programs: Mucci, BA Gold, HHonours Diamond, BA AMEX PremPlus
Posts: 5,140
Thanks for this, Raffles, application approved.
Apr 21, 2010, 5:01 am
#111
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: SEN
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 612
No quidco tracking for me either but I made my peace with the value against £95 so if I can get the cashback it'll be a bonus.
Apr 21, 2010, 5:04 am
#112
Join Date: Jan 2006
Programs: MUCCI
Posts: 5,706
N.B. that does not imply anything at all about whether your cookies were ok.
All it tells you is that was the time you clicked the quidco link.
If it says tracked, that the first time they have heard anything at all back from the merchant.
Apr 21, 2010, 5:20 am
#113
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: 12 minutes to T5!
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 164
I was fretting but i have checked this and at least it has a record that I clicked through the site
Apr 21, 2010, 7:20 am
#114
Join Date: Sep 2009
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 69
Ah yes I see what you mean! Sorry if I've confused the issue ruthiepegs but as you say the record is there to put in an enquiry at a later date if needed. I have to say Quidco payments normally go through ok in my experience so fingers crossed, but £95 for 20000 miles isn't bad either!
Apr 21, 2010, 7:39 am
#115
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 4,929
Having got the "wait 10 days" message at the weekend, I thought I'd give Amex a call today to check on my application - apparently approval has been given and the card is en route ^
Apr 21, 2010, 7:42 am
#116
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: London, UK
Posts: 5,105
Also applied and accepted, thanks Raffles ^
Now I am wondering whether I should cancel my old green Amex charge card or not. I am grandfathered with it so I still get the BA Amex PP+ card for free. My concern is that if I cancel it and keep this Gold Card Amex will start charging me £150 for the BA card!
Now I am wondering whether I should cancel my old green Amex charge card or not. I am grandfathered with it so I still get the BA Amex PP+ card for free. My concern is that if I cancel it and keep this Gold Card Amex will start charging me £150 for the BA card!
Apr 21, 2010, 8:30 am
#117
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 1,015
Did you give them payment details over the phone or did you have to finalise your online application?
Apr 21, 2010, 9:36 am
#118
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: GLA
Programs: BD (in memoriam), BA
Posts: 1,359
Worth pointing out (in case you overlooked it like me) the travel inconvenience benefits with the card, which aren't too bad (though obviously nothing like the full Amex Plat insurance):
Travel Inconvenience Benefit
£200 for meals or hotels if your flight is delayed for over 4 hours. Or if you're left without luggage for more than 6 hrs, get up to £750 for toiletries and clothes
(need to have charged the flight to the card)
Travel Inconvenience Benefit
£200 for meals or hotels if your flight is delayed for over 4 hours. Or if you're left without luggage for more than 6 hrs, get up to £750 for toiletries and clothes
(need to have charged the flight to the card)
Apr 21, 2010, 11:25 am
#119
Join Date: May 2009
Location: UK
Posts: 3,951
Im going to use another 'PP Top-up Card' to load from it thus earning me 30,000 BA Miles(or *A miles) for £40(£35+£5).
Hoping in the future for a promo to come along where i can pay £1 per 1K miles
Apr 21, 2010, 11:42 am
#120
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 30
Does the paypal top up work equally well from an MBNA issued Amex as from a 'true' Amex?